Reviews

Masha Gessen’s new book explores the his­to­ry of the Jew­ish Autonomous Region of Biro­bidzhan through the sto­ry of David Bergel­son and Simon Dub­now, whose thought and writ­ing influ­enced its development.

Jun 26, 2017

A review of the new edi­tion of S. A. Birn­baum’s Yid­dish: A Sur­vey and a Grammar

Jun 15, 2017

A review of Clau­dia Rosen­zweig’s new crit­i­cal edi­tion of the bove-bukh.

May 25, 2017

Seel­ig’s new book explores the city of Berlin dur­ing the Weimar peri­od as a ​“tran­sit sta­tion” for Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture writ­ten in Ger­man, Yid­dish, and Hebrew.

Apr 26, 2017

Mar 22, 2017

Nao­mi Sei­d­man’s new book exam­ines the Ashke­nazi Jew­ish expe­ri­ence of mod­ern­iza­tion through the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of chang­ing ideas about love and sex­u­al­i­ty in literature. 

Mar 02, 2017

The new anthol­o­gy of sto­ries pub­lished in The For­ward has more than a few gems, Eileen Pol­lack reviews. 

Nov 30, 2016

A review of Efrat Gal-Ed’s new biog­ra­phy of Itzik Manger. 

Oct 31, 2016

Miri­am Udel’s new book trav­els with the genre of the picaresque from the shtetl to the USA to the USSR and brings it into the twen­ti­eth century.

Oct 19, 2016

Jerold Frakes’s recent Eng­lish anthol­o­gy makes ear­ly Yid­dish epic acces­si­ble to a broad audi­ence for the first time. 

Oct 05, 2016